Spyware to monitor Uyghurs
IT security analysts have uncovered two new surveillance spyware programs targeting Uyghurs in mainland China and abroad. One campaign introduced a novel Android monitoring tool Lookout has dubbed BadBazaar, which shares infrastructure with other previously discovered Uyghur-targeted tools. The other tool uses updated variants of a previously publicized tool, MOONSHINE, discovered by Citizen Lab that targeted Tibetan activists in 2019. Although there have been surveillance and detention campaigns against Uyghurs and other Turkish ethnic minorities for years, after…